The BioCreative VI workshop will be held at DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Bethesda - Bethesda, Maryland during October 18-20, 2017.
- Registration
- Travel Awards
- Scientific Program
- Venue and Access
- Work Submissions
- Accommodations
- Visas
- Sponsors
- Proceedings
Registration
Registration to BioCreative VI Workshop is now closed
Registration includes:
Registration is in US dollars:
| Registration Type | Early fee (until September 18) | Late fee (after September 18) |
| Student/post-doc | $180 | $250 |
| Academic/non-profit/Government | $330 | $400 |
| Industry | $400 | $470 |
Travel Awards
Funds are available for US participants for the amount up to $700 to participate in the BioCreative workshop. To apply complete the application available here by September 1st. Women, under-represented minorities, students, and post-doctoral fellows are encouraged to apply. Submissions are now closed
Scientific Program
Venue: DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel, Bethesda, Maryland
Talks: Ballroom D (2nd floor)
Posters: Balance room (2nd floor)
The scientific program includes the talks related to the individual tracks, a panel about Innovation in biomedical digital curation, a general session for BioCreative related topics, 2 keynote talks and a poster session. Detailed agenda is shown below
Wednesday, October 18, 2017
| 08:00 - 12:00 | Registration (EMC foyer, 2nd floor) |
| 08:00 - 09:00 | Breakfast (EMC foyer, 2nd floor) |
| 09:00 - 09:15 | Workshop opening
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| 09:15 - 10:40 | TRACK 1 Interactive Bio-ID Assignment 9:15-9:25 Introduction to Bio_ID track (Cecilia Arighi, University of Delaware) 9:25-9:40 Introduction to SourceData and data set (Thomas Lemberger, SourceData) 9:40-9:55 Overview of Bio_ID results – batch results (Lynette Hirschman, MITRE) 9:55-10:05 A Neural Named Entity Recognition Approach to Biological Entity Identification (Emily Sheng, Information Sciences Institute/USC) 10:05-10:15 A Study on Identification of Organism and micro-RNA Mentions in Figure Captions (Po-Ting Lai, National Central University) 10:15-10:40 Next steps and discussion |
| 10:40 - 11:00 | Break |
| 11:00 - 12:30 | Panel on Innovation on Digital Curation (Moderators: Fabio Rinaldi and Cecilia Arighi)
11:00-11:10 Julio Collado-Vides, UNAM- Natural language processing to enhance accessibility to knowledge in RegulonDB 11:10-11:20 Thomas Lemberger, EMBO- Data transparency in scientific publishing
11:20-11:30 Zhiyong Lu, NCBI- Text mining for improving the prioritization, curation, and integration of knowledge for clinically relevant variants
11:30-11:40 Johanna McEntyre, EMBL-EBI- How can text mining scale to meet diverse and precise curation needs?
11:40-12:30 Open discussion |
| 12:30 - 13:40 | Lunch (Restaurant first floor) |
| 13:40 - 15:40 | TRACK 4 Mining protein interactions and mutations for precision medicine 1:40-2:10 Overview of the Precision Medicine Track (Rezarta Islamaj Dogan)
2:10-2:30 Identifying Relevant Literature for Precision Medicine Using Deep Neural Networks (Sergio Matos) 2:30- 2:50 Exploring a Deep Learning Pipeline for the BioCreative VI Precision Medicine Task (Tung Tran) 2:50- 3:10 Mining protein interactions affected by mutations using a NLP based machine learning approach (Albert Steppi and Jinchan Qu) 3:10-3:30 Document Triage and Relation Extraction for Protein-Protein Interactions affected by Mutations (Dina Demner Fushman for Karin Verspoor and team) 3:30-3:40 Poster spotlight and Open discussion |
| 15:40 - 16:00 | Break |
| 16:00 - 17:00 | Keynote- Dr. Patricia Flatley Brennan, Director of National Library of Medicine, NIH Towards a future of data-powered health Zip file |
| 17:00 - 18:00 | Panel on Funding Stakeholders (Moderator: Cathy Wu)
Susan Gregurick, NIGMS, NIH
Jennifer Weller, NSF Jane Ye, NLM, NIH
Johanna McEntyre, EMBL-EBI |
Thursday, October 19, 2017
| 08:00 - 12:00 | Registration (EMC foyer, 2nd floor) |
| 08:00 - 09:00 | Breakfast (EMC foyer, 2nd floor) |
| 09:00 - 10:15 | General session 9:00-9:20 Efficient and Accurate Entity Recognition for Biomedical Text (Fabio Rinaldi, U. Zurich) 9:20-9:40 iTextMine: Integrated Text Mining System for Large-Scale Knowledge Extraction from Literature (Jia Ren, U. Delaware) 9:40-10:00 Large-scale Automated Reading with Reach Discovers New Cancer Driving Mechanisms (Dane Bell, U. Arizona) 10:00-10:20 Evaluating without a Gold Standard (Lynette Hirschman, MITRE) |
| 10:20 - 10:40 | Break |
| 10:40 - 12:30 | TRACK 2 Text-mining services for Kinome Curation
10:40-11:10 Kinome Track Overview (Julien Gobeill & Patrick Ruch, SIB) 11:10-11:35 Assisting Document Triage for Human Kinome Curation via Machine Learning (Alan Hsu, NCBI) 11:35-11:55 KinDER: A Biocuration Tool for Extracting Kinase Knowledge from Biomedical Literature (Adam Morrone & Daniel Dopp, Montana State University) 11:55-12:20 Discussion |
| 12:30 - 13:45 | Lunch (Restaurant first floor) |
| 13:45 - 15:45 | TRACK 3 Extraction of causal network information using the Biological Expression Language
1:45 - 2:15 BEL Track - Overview and Results (Sumit Madan, Fraunhofer SCAI, Germany)
2:15 - 2:30 Task 1 - BELMiner – Information extraction system to extract BEL relationships (Ravikumar Komandur Elayavilli, Mayo Clinic, USA)
2:30 - 2:45 Task 1 - Generating Biological Expression Language Statements with Pipeline Approach and Different Parsers (Po-Ting Lai, National Central University, Taiwan)
2:45 - 3:00 Task 1 - Automatic Extraction of BEL-Statements based on Neural Networks (Mehdi Ali, University of Bonn, Germany)
3:00 - 3:15 Task 2 - Semantic Information Retrieval: Exploring dependency and word embedding features in biomedical Information Retrieval (Majid Rastegar-Mojarad, Mayo Clinic, USA)
3:15 - 3:30 BEL Track - Next steps and discussion (Sumit Madan, Fraunhofer SCAI, Germany)
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| 15:45 - 16:00 | Break |
| 16:00 - 17:00 | Keynote- Dr. Hongfang Liu, Professor Biomedical Informatics, Mayo Clinic Text mining in precision medicine: opportunities and challenges |
| 17:00 - 19:00 | Poster session and Reception |
Friday, October 20, 2017
| 08:00 - 09:00 | Breakfast (EMC foyer, 2nd floor) |
| 08:30 - 10:30 | TRACK 5 Text mining chemical-protein interactions
8:30-9:00 Overview of the Chemical-Protein relation extraction track (Martin Krallinger / Saber A. Akhondi (CNIO / Elsevier)
9:00-9:15 Chemical-protein relation extraction with SVM, CNN, RNN and ensemble systems (Yifan Peng, NCBI, NLM, NIH)
9:15-9:30 Extracting Chemical-Protein Interactions using Long Short-Term Memory Networks (Sérgio Matos, University of Aveiro, Portugal)
9:30-9:45 Attention based Neural Networks for Chemical Protein Relation Extraction (Ravikumar Komandur Elayavilli, Mayo Clinic, USA) 9:45-10:00 Extracting protein-chemical compound interactions from literature (Pei-Yau Lung, Florida State University) 10:00-10:15 Knowledge-base-enriched relation extraction (Ignacio Tripodi, University of Colorado, Boulder)
10:15 - 10:30 CTCPI - Convolution Tree Kernel-based Chemical-Protein interaction detection (Po-Ting Lai, National Tsing-Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan) |
| 10:30 - 10:45 | Break |
| 10:45 - 12:00 | Tracks open discussion/closing |
| 12:00 - 13:00 | Lunch (Restaurant first floor) |
| 13:00 - 15:30 | Tour to the National Library of Medicine |
Work Submissions
Submission of abstracts/papers should be done via Easychair at the following URL: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=bc6. Format for submission:PDF.
BioCreative VI proceedings will be published online and will be available at the time of the meeting.
We will invite selected works for full publication in the Database Journal Special Issue for BioCreative.
Track presentation submissions: Track participants should submit their work in the form of a short paper (up to 4 pages). See template with instructions here. Although template is a word document, the format for submission should be in PDF.
Submission deadline: please follow the dates described in the track you are participating
General session submissions: BioCreative VI will host a general session to provide an opportunity to discuss related work to BioCreative topics, including data set preparation, evaluation, biomedical information extraction. Then, we are soliciting submission of your bioNLP work that is related to any of these topics in the form of a 2 page abstracts (see template with instructions can be found here). Although template is a word document, the format for submission should be in PDF. Abstracts will be selected for oral presentation during the corresponding session.
Submission deadline September 17, 2017
POSTERS
Poster size 32"x40"
Venue and Access
Conference venue | Map
DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Bethesda - Washington DC
8120 Wisconsin Avenue, Bethesda, Maryland 20814
Phone: (301) 652-2000
Accommodations
There are a number of rooms reserved for this event at the DoubleTree hotel with a special rate of US$219 per night. This special rate is available through September 22, 2017.
Guests can go online to the BioCreative hotel page reservation http://doubletree.hilton.com/en/dt/groups/personalized/W/WASBHDT-BC0-20171017 (Preferred)
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Guests can call 1-800-955-7359 and request the group rate for the BioCreative VI Conference or the Group SRP/Code: BC0.
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Go to the hotel main page www.bethesda.doubletree.com, click on the Reservations Tab, enter dates and on the Special Accounts Section enter BC0 for the Group/Convention Code.
The special rate applies for the nights 10/17/2017 through 10/20/2017.
Directions
Map & Directions to the hotel from local airports:
The Doubletree Hotel in Bethesda is conveniently located near 3 airports. It is just 15 miles from Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport (DCA), 27 miles from Washington Dulles International Airport (IAD), and 38 miles from Baltimore Washington International Airport (BWI). All three airports should have private shuttle services available. Fees for these services vary based on distance to the hotel.
Transportation options from DCA
Transportation options from IAD
Transportation options from BWI
Maps and directions
Parking
The hotel offers paid parking (rate $12 for day parking and $23 for overnight). There are also meter spaces and public parking throughout Bethesda area. To check parking places and rates click here
Visas
You are responsible to inquire about visa requirements to enter the US. General information about US visas can be found here. If you need a letter of invitation to attend the workshop please send email to bcviworkshop@gmail.com with subject: visa letter request.
Sponsors
BioCreative workshop is sponsored by
BioCreative VI Workshop Proceedings
The proceedings is now available here
